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My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Always Both Metaphorical Parents Richness Spoke Storytellers Were

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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.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Area Documentaries Explored Good Leave Lives Need Out People Think Which I Think

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I have a collective sense of suffering.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Collective Sense Suffering

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I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Around Believe Care Everybody Mother Taking Way You I Believe

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I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Cry Less Most Much People Than Used

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I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Am Brought How Right See Since Try Up Writer Writing Wrong I Am

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If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Deny Idea No Idea Own People Voice Were Who You

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People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Choice Everything Had Intellect Lovers People Problem Really Submission

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It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Ancestors Attempts Because Been Behavior Brutality Characterized Cruel Despicable Erase Identify Israel Land Lawless My Own Own Palestinians People Recognize Sadistic Treated Which I Can

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I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Cannot Claim Had Hard Hard Time Publishing Time

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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