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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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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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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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