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Were Quotes by Alice Walker
- 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,…
- I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out…
- For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were…
- 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 parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
- How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the…
- When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were…
- 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.…
- 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 made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that…
More Were Quotes
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe