Alice Walker Quotes

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

Jimmy Cliff

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Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

Melanie Rawn

MeaningTryWithinUncommonText

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

Max Lucado

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Sadly, commercially-produced, frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen.

Michael Greger

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You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.

Skylar Astin

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When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.

Trevor Jackson

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Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

Rivers Cuomo

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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

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When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

Julia Roberts

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It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

Judy Blume

DeterminationTalentPeopleThink

The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Alicia Silverstone

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