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Alice Walker Quotes

American - Author | February 9, 1944 -

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

Life Impact My Life You Know Mean

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Power People American Butt Jokes

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.

Reading Sometimes Write See I See

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Life Work My Life Want About

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Love Culture People World Out Which

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Love See Us Almost Ourselves Deeply

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Capitalism Problem You Selling Big

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

Beginning Survive Color America Long

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.

Myself Writing Feel Always Out Poet

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

People Language View You Understand

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

Small Country Person Used Just

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Good Evil Language Us Who Happened

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