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" We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. "
Alice Walker
Wake Up
Clone
Refuse
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" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "
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" June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. "
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Time
World
Fierce
" You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. "
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Love
Accept
You
" We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. "
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Us
Equal
Existence
" 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. "
Alice Walker
See
Spark
Seed
" Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. "
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You
Gift
I Can
" Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. "
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Real
Convinced
Ever
" Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. "
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Up
Women
Courage
" There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. "
Alice Walker
Prison
Palestinians
No Reason
" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "
Alice Walker
Power
People
Government
" Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. "
Alice Walker
Good
Evil
Intrinsic
" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "
Alice Walker
Enemies
Who
Us
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Beautiful
Truth
Today
" We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. "
Alice Walker
Our
Believe
Children
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Free
World
Humanity
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Think
Life
People
" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "
Alice Walker
Garden
Mother
Own
" I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. "
Alice Walker
Care
Company
Find
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Family
Children
Women
" I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. "
Alice Walker
Cry
Much
People
" I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth. "
Alice Walker
Myself
Place
People
" Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. "
Alice Walker
Sister
Comforting
More
" 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? "
Alice Walker
Trees
Loved
Flower
" 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
Me
Muse
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Started
Myself
Feel
" Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. "
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Loved
Love
Witty
" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
Alice Walker
Raising
Rebellion
Revolution
" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "
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Someone
Freedom
Fly
" 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. "
Alice Walker
Future
People
Mother