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" On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it. "

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" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

Alice Walker

Money

People

Too Much

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

" I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. "

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

" My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. "

" I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty. "

" People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. "

" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "

Alice Walker

Great

Muse

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. "

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

" 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. "

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

" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. "

Alice Walker

Mothers

Simple

" 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

Change

Enjoy

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

" 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. "

Alice Walker

Women

Friendship

" 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. "

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

" 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 cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. "

" It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. "

" Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. "

" Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. "

Alice Walker

Anywhere

Get

" Fear is real, but so is love. "

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

" Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand. "

" I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. "

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

" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "

Alice Walker

Women

Courage