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" People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. "

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" People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. "

Alice Walker

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Everything

" Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. "

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

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

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

" Horses make a landscape look beautiful. "

" I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. "

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

" I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. "

" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. "

" My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. "

Alice Walker

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Week

" Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. "

" I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother. "

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

" Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. "

Alice Walker

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Say

" 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. "

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

Alice Walker

Anywhere

Get

" There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

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

" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "

" I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "

" I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. "

" Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. "

" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "

" I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve. "

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