Alice Walker Quotes (220 quotes)

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„It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.“
― 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.“
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„It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.“
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„People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.“
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„As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.“
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„I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.“
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„What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.“
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„There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.“
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„Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.“
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„So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.“
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„It's not possible to stop love.“
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„It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.“
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„I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.“
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„I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.“
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„I think America has always been polarized.“
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„I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.“
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„I start each book when it's ready and never before.“
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„I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.“
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„I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.“
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„I have a collective sense of suffering.“
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Alice Walker
Author born: February 09, 1944
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Author

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