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" Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. "

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" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "

Alice Walker

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Heart

People

" I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. "

" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "

" The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" It's not possible to stop love. "

" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Alice Walker

Hidden

See

" The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. "

" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "

" 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. "

" Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. "

" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "

" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

" 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. "

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

" I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. "

" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "

Alice Walker

Any

God

" We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. "

Alice Walker

Enemies

Who

" My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. "

Alice Walker

Women

Father

" 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

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

" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "

" One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. "