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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

~Alice Walker

Topics: American American People Butt Jokes People Power Sure Those

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

~Alice Walker

Topics: American Been Blog Crippled Generations Longer Reading See Sentence Sometimes Spell Which Write I See

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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Life My Life Want Work

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Culture Enslaved Grew Love Natural Natural World Out People Which World I Love

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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Almost Deeply Incredibly Love Ourselves See Unbearable Us I Love

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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Because Big Big Problem Buy Buying Capitalism Else Going Just Keep Means Nothing Planet Problem Sell Selling Things Until Up Well Which You

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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

~Alice Walker

Topics: America Beginning Color Descendants Done In The Beginning Knows Long Maybe Nearly Only Our See Something Survive Who Will

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Always Been Feel Fundamentally Got Myself Novels Out Poet Since Started Who Writing I Feel

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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Cannot Confuses Different Directions Getting Honestly How Language Lot Many Most Part People Points Times Understand Upheaval View Written You

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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Always Care Come Company Find Imagine Journals Letters Many Papers People Themselves Things Who Will Years I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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