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" It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. "

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" It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. "

Alice Walker

Black

Flower

Think

" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "

" I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. "

" At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. "

" I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. "

" It is natural to want to have a future. "

" I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. "

" I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. "

" I think America has always been polarized. "

" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "

" I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. "

" My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. "

Alice Walker

Women

Father

" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "

" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "

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

" It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. "

" I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. "

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

" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "

" So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. "

" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

" Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. "

" 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. "

" My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? "

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

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

" Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. "

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "

" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "