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Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Certain Damage Devotion Fear Feelings Humiliation Just Most Occur Others Out Pain Profess Racial Religious Those Us Who

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A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Chinese Dalai Dalai Lama Endless Enemy Good Government He His How Invaded Lama Model Presented Soul Tibet Work

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I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

~Alice Walker

Topics: Backward Incredibly Intelligent Sane Support Think Want War Why Would You I Think

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When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Aid Always Attempted Because Been Come Democratic Early Early 20S Exercise Freedom Had Joined Known Land Like Mississippi Movement Off Parents Right Thrown Vote Who

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I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

~Alice Walker

Topics: College Did First Friends Friendship Loved Loyal Made Mattered Me Our Understood Were White Women

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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Any Baggage Down Easily Imagine Leader Mar Obama Past Person Race Servitude Sitting Supremacy Talking Talks World I Can

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So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Astounding Black Lifetime Many Men Physical Shock

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I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Five Happens Honestly How Idea Least Lives Living No Idea Parallel Still Wonder I Wonder

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I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Any Belonging Love Movement Never Particular Population Segment Thought Women I Love

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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

~Alice Walker

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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