Alice Walker Quotes

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Alice Walker

Profession : Author

Birth : February 9, 1944

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

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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.

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Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

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One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

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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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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

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Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

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I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

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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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'Fame' exhausts me.

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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

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

Alice Walker