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It's not possible to stop love.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Love Possible Stop

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You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Bring Children Heart Heart And Soul Love Soul Them World You

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On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Before Eye Hidden Level Life Me More See Spiritual Than Though I See

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You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Accept Give Loss Love Opportunity Others To Love Who You

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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.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Actually Africa Beginning Book Child College Gone Had Junior Maybe Myself Poems Published Something Sophomore Started Think Until Writing Wrote

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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.

~Alice Walker

Topics: American Collective Country Farthest Generally Hard Individualism Our Possibly Taken Terms Think Used Very Working I Think

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We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Afraid Behaviour Cease Children Everything Everywhere Feel Makes Must Our Power

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I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Atlanta College First Girl Good-Looking He Many Met Over Professor Tall Year

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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.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Also Clearly He His Irreverent Love Loved Magical Students Teacher Teaching To Love Wanted Wise Witty

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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.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Community Could Did Different Different Kinds Domination Had Her Just Kinds Male Many Mother Mothers Never People She System Think Very Who I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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