American - Author | February 9, 1944 -
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
Alice Walker
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You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.
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I start each book when it's ready and never before.
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It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
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I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
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I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.
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My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
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There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'
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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.
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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.
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