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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. "
Alice Walker
Sometimes
Spell
Reading
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" 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. "
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People
Mother
" I don't generally read reviews. "
Alice Walker
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Generally
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" When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb. "
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" I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. "
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Purple
True
" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
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" I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. "
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Love
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" I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. "
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" 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. "
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Time
School
Mother
" Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. "
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Out
Power
Powerful
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Mirror
Men
Work
" It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting. "
Alice Walker
Tragedy
Think
Up
" It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. "
Alice Walker
Mature
Write
Will
" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "
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Feeling
Really
Old
" My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. "
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Spoke
Richness
Parents
" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "
Alice Walker
Happy
People
Yourself
" My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. "
Alice Walker
Segregation
Poor
Farming
" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "
Alice Walker
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You
Triumph
" It is important to remember yourself. "
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Important
Remember
" I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "
Alice Walker
Happens
Still
Living
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Beautiful
Wake Up
Love
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Race
Past
World
" I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. "
Alice Walker
Butt
Jokes
People
" My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. "
Alice Walker
Interest
Useful
Anything
" 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. "
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She
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" 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. "
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Medicine
Children
Day
" You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. "
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Love
Know
Hatred
" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "
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Weird
Beautiful
Trees
" 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. "
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Think
Feel
Injustice
" I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. "
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Want
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" 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. "
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Change
Accept
Enjoy