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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Add Adds Allow Any Case Experience Fullness Movements Must Never Our Partisan Society Them Understanding Whole

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Inconvenience Me Saved Sin Violence Writing

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Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Any Brought Church Ever Felt God Me

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I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Heart Teach Things Try Want

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Current History Injustice Level Some Somewhere World

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Any Believe Black Devastation Joy Moral People Physical Possess Secret Spiritual Sustain The Secret Of Them Those Through Who Will

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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.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Actually Does Eventually Everyone Life Only People Progress Really Rest Some Some People Tend Think

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Could Creative Flower Grandmothers Handed Hoped Letter Like More Mothers Never Often Our Plainly Read Sealed See Seed Spark Than Themselves

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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Either Else Fact Give Got Land Man Money Nothing Our Our People Out People Slavery Something Soon Trouble Want White Woman You Your

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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Always Because Care Children Humanity Left Most Planet Precious Resource See Them Will I See

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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