Alice Walker Quotes

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FriendshipWomenCollegeMeLoved

I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.

Joe Johnston

TimeDecisionTogetherJobProblem

The locker rooms that Donald Trump is in are not at the cut-rate gym with the broken treadmills - they are at his swish golf clubs. They are places of stature.

John Dickerson

BrokenGolfGymDonald TrumpPlaces

I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

John Oliver

DogWifeWarDoingWorthYou

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

Michael Cimino

PeopleMoviesPointTellStories

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Robert Falcon Scott

LightDayGameWorthEvery DayNew

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Romano Prodi

MotherProblemsCooperationQuestion

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's been a congressman for many years, and he's running again.

Miguel Syjuco

FatherGovernmentYearsUpBeenHe

Pre-competition rituals include nap time, because when competition rolls around, I'm a sloth. I also FaceTime my dogs.

Mirai Nagasu

TimeCompetitionNapDogsSloth

There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me, it was important to have some sense that my failures weren't unique.

Jonathan Dee

WorkPathMeUniqueImportantYoung

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

Jon Batiste

TechnologyPeopleWorldGeneration

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

David Shields

LiveBecauseLikeNon-FictionTimes

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.

Cheo Hodari Coker

CulturePeopleBlackLongAlive

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