“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: society
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“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
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“Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
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“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: history
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: men
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“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: future
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“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
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“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: freedom
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: women
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
— Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Category: friendship
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