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Alice Walker Quotes

American - Author | February 9, 1944 -

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?

War Support Think You Want Why

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.

Freedom Parents Exercise Early Vote

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.

Leader Past World Talking Down Race

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

College Year Good-Looking Atlanta He

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Love Teacher Wise Loved Witty

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

Men Black Lifetime Physical Shock

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

Wonder Living I Wonder Idea Happens

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Mother Community People Think Never

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

Love Women Thought Belonging Never

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Regret Done May Mine Behaviour Harm

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

Friend University Because Who He

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Women Doing Know Want Whatever

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