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From Quotes by Alice Walker
- My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to…
- One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the…
- I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
- Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract…
- It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the…
- As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will…
- Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories,…
- HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none…
- Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
- As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have…
- I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
- It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to…
- Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art…
- Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never…
- From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
- The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
- 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…
- I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
- I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem…
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