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" The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "
Alice Walker
Die
Men
Peaceful
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" It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. "
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" I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. "
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" I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. "
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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. "
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" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "
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" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. "
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" And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. "
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" 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. "
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Earth
" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "
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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'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. "
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Very
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Much
" For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. "
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Living
Present
Life
" At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. "
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" A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. "
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" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "
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Our
Believe
Children
" I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "
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Known
Am
Felt
" 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. "
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" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "
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" 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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" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "
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" Fear is real, but so is love. "
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" I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' "
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" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "
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