Alice Walker Quotes

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My family were really poor.

Joe Gilgun

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When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

Meg Wolitzer

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Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

Robert Redford

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It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Robert Taft

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No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen.

Russell Crowe

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My original intent for investing into Sprint - the main strategy was to buy Sprint and T-Mobile at the same time, so we'd have a critical mass to fight against AT&T and Verizon. The U.S. government didn't accept that. They rejected it. So my fundamental strategy was broken.

Masayoshi Son

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I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.

Michelle Dean

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I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

Josh Hartnett

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As a senator, I will prioritize overturning the current system and restoring openness and integrity to our government to return power to the people.

Conner Eldridge

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The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.

Conrad Black

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It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Cliff Shaw

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I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it's a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged.

Brenda Strong

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