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Alice Walker Quotes

American - Author | February 9, 1944 -

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

People Some People Dancers Writer

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

People Cry Used Most Than Much

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

People Voice You Own Idea Who

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Music Food Fight People World Want

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Life Live Ideal Very Contemplative

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.

Nature Time Tree World Think Self

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months.

Woman You Circle Two Month Advocate

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

Tradition You Become Adult Ancestry

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Live Day Sometimes Breathe Same Air

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Child Conversation Circle Never Must

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Mother Future Woman People Me Black

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

People Problem Choice Everything Had

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