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" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

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" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

Alice Walker

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" The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "

" To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. "

" I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. "

" It's not possible to stop love. "

" I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up. "

" Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature. "

" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "

" People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "

" I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. "

" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

" There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. "

" All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. "

" As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. "

" Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. "

" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "

" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "

" We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. "

Alice Walker

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" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "

Alice Walker

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" I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. "

" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "

" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "

" I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. "

" Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. "

" I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. "

" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "