Alice Walker Quotes

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Alice Walker

Profession : Author

Birth : February 9, 1944

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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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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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.

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I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

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Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

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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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Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

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If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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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.

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David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

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I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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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.

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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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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

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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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