Alice Walker Quotes

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

Michael Cera

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I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

Steven Heighton

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Every health expert tells you to eat breakfast. I had the mentality, 'I'll save those calories!' But then you are starving, and you overeat.

Trisha Yearwood

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Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.

Rose George

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I really enjoy 'Mad Men,' but I'm hugely into 'Homeland.' The characters are very well drawn and complex.

Ruth Bradley

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I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Michelle Obama

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Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

Michael N. Castle

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Music is a great part of my life. It helps me relax and keep calm whenever I am not boxing.

Joseph Parker

LifeMusicGreatI AmMeRelax

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

Jonathan Freeman

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The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

Chloe Sevigny

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In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.

Chellie Pingree

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People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Constance Wu

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