Alice Walker Quotes

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

MyselfBeginningChildCollegeBook

I am a quiet person's nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

Jodie Whittaker

TimeI AmBookReadingQuietPerson

When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.

Jill Bennett

ManI AmDirectionYearLooksClub

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

John le Carre

WorldFamousNot KnowingKnowNames

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Angela Davis

SometimesYesWellGetCourse

Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic.

Michael Hayden

IntelligencePurposeLogicStreet

I never get star-struck. I never fanboy. Ever, ever, ever.

John Tiffany

NeverGetEver

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

Steve Carr

ArtMoneySchoolGoFine ArtFilm

We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.

Steve Brown

LoveAmazingWorldFanAroundBase

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

Sofia Boutella

BeautifulWomanMeDesertEnergy

It is hard to be unhappy in a gay bar where everyone's singing show tunes! In fact, I've spent many a night in those kind of places - in that particular place, actually - Marie's Crisis: it's truly a New York establishment.

Miriam Shor

New YorkSingingNightUnhappyGay

When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

Jay-Z

LifeStruggleEnvironmentPoorKid

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

Janis Ian

FriendsEnoughLostKnowBeing There

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