Alice Walker
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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.
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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.
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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
Skill to do comes of doing.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
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