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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Air Being Being Used Bombs Fragile Fuel Global Global Warming Going Greatly Interconnected Kinds Off Planes Planet Rockets Surprise Those Us Used Various Very War Warming Water Which

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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

~Alice Walker

Topics: About Dies Know Other Race Should Something Survivor Think Will You

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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Been Earth Forever Had Indigenous Living Lot Money Organized Organized Religion People Power Religion Think Ways Well Which I Think

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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Back Child Country Creation Everything Except Exist Growing Growing Up Learned Me Meditation Naturally Oneness Part People Point Rarely Seeing State Took Transcendental Up Way Years Years Ago

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Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Anywhere Get Sucking Up Us

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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

~Alice Walker

Topics: Else Impact Know Life Mean My Life Somebody You

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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Because Bliss Coming Could Creation Did Even Only Period Sad Somebody Still Subject Sustained Though Through Triumph Understanding Very Way You

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David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

~Alice Walker

Topics: David Malcolm Malcolm X Me Reminded

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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Culture Doing Family Me Parents Saying Service Taught

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A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Again Artists Away Bone Children Collect Duty Future Geniuses Necessary Our People Sake Them Throw Thrown Witnesses

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1944

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