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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
Alice Walker
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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice Walker
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice Walker
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker
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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
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker
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