Alice Walker quotes - page 6

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. (Alice Walker)
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. View quote
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. View quote
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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. View quote
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. View quote
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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. View quote
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. View quote
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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 and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. View quote
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. View quote
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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. View quote
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. (Alice Walker)
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. View quote
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man. View quote
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. View quote
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. View quote
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. View quote
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? View quote
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. View quote
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything. View quote
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. View quote
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. (Alice Walker)
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. View quote
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. View quote
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious. View quote
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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 not intended. View quote
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