Alice Walker Quotes
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form...
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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
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Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
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The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman - or maybe not even written for a woman at all - is a female part. You convince them you can do it.
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I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.
