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Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Convinced Ever Me Nobody Race Real

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Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

~Alice Walker

Topics: After Down Draft Go Going Say Sit Some Thought Through Without Writers

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What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Anymore Care Could Hard Him Live Lot Really Someone Want You

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I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

~Alice Walker

Topics: African-American American Euro Native Native American Part

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At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Any Art Dancers Dancing Everybody Going Lawrence Makeup Nobody Painters Painting Realized Sarah Were Wore Writers Writing

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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Ecstatic Jazz Just Life Like Side Writing

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Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Accepted Concerned Feel Loved Offending Once People Really Universe You

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It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

~Alice Walker

Topics: American Because Beings Brought Cannot Different Feel Just Just Because Limiting Other People Think Tragedy Up Very Way

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I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Accountable Acting Behaviour Cease Going Government Israeli Made Palestinians People Understand Want

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I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Audience Intended Just Know Never Write You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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