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" Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. "
Alice Walker
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" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "
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" The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' "
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" It is natural to want to have a future. "
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" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "
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" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "
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" Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors. "
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" The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. "
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" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "
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" I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. "
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" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "
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Long
Done
" All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. "
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" Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. "
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" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "
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" I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. "
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" The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. "
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" I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. "
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" Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. "
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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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" I have a collective sense of suffering. "
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" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "
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" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "
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Spell
Reading
" I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. "
Alice Walker
Native
African-American
American
" Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. "
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Others
Feelings
Fear
" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "
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" 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. "
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" My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? "
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" You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. "
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" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "
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" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "
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" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "
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