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Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker

(1944 - )

Novelist, Poet, Activist

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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
Essence - Judging - Planet
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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
Creativity - Doing - Emotions - Interest - Reading - Tendency
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Alice Walker

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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.
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Alice Walker

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I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.
Doing - Dominating - Having - Mother - Thinking
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Alice Walker

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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 fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
Airplane - Fragility - Greatness - Interconnectedness
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Alice Walker

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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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Alice Walker

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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.
Earth - Having - Organizing - Thinking - Wellness
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Alice Walker

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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.
Belief - Imperfection - Judging - Palestine - Trial - Wants
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Alice Walker

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
Feelings - Poetry
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Alice Walker

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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Exception - Ownership - Possibility
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Alice Walker

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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Beginner - Children - Having - Publishing - Start - Thinking - Writing
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Alice Walker

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
Dance - Fury
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Alice Walker

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My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.
Doing - Giving - Having - Making - Sales - Work
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Alice Walker

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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
Progression
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Alice Walker

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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.
America - Countries - Possibility - Taking - Thinking - Work
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Alice Walker

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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
Planet - Sharing
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Alice Walker

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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
Mindset - State
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Alice Walker

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
Confusion - Growing - Phase - Preparedness - Realization
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