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In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Became Been Couple Farms Had Heart Helping Helping People Later Lawyer Married Met Mississippi Movement Off People Roles Summer Taken Thrown Vote Welfare While Who Working

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Account Been Gift Loneliness People Radical Society Sometimes Taken Vision

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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Back Because Been Believe Child Delay Disrespect Dust Head Imperfect Injustice Justice Off Palestinian Put Respect Right Severe Tenderness Try Want Will Without World I Believe

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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Afghanistan After Attack Attacked Been Distressed Had Response Some States Terrorists United United States Where

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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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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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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Ability Always Anything Been Behavior Faith Finally Infinite Justified Makes People Sense Understand

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Always Been Being Come Fairly Just Kind Life Living Lot Me Out Present Really Writing

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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 know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Been Child Children Copy Had Having Know Myself Will You

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