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Very Quotes by Alice Walker
- Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
- In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it,…
- Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding…
- I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
- 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…
- I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos…
- 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…
- I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods,…
- I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
- I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to…
- I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor…
- 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…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong