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Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American Author

Born: Feb 9, 1944

Life Me People Think World You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. Alice Walker

Life Work My Life About Want

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. Alice Walker

Love Incredibly Ourselves See Unbearable Almost Us Deeply

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. Alice Walker

Will Long Beginning Our See Something Only Color Knows Survive America Done Maybe In The Beginning Who Descendants Nearly

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. Alice Walker

Life Time Change Dire About Almost Because How Real Same Just Same Time Again Ever Things

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. Alice Walker

Work Black Men Sweet Spirits Clear Abundant Infancy Fiercely

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? Alice Walker

People Other Enough Desperately Hunger Who Ever

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. Alice Walker

Future People Duty Bone Our Collect Throw Thrown Geniuses Witnesses Sake Artists Children Again Them Away Necessary

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. Alice Walker

Think Others Know Much Ever Cared

It's not possible to stop love. Alice Walker

Love Possible Stop

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. Alice Walker

Old Feeling Really

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. Alice Walker

World Parents Our Enter See Very Us Hard Who Imagine

'Fame' exhausts me. Alice Walker

Me Fame

I have a collective sense of suffering. Alice Walker

Suffering Collective Sense

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. Alice Walker

People Most Cry Than Much Used Less

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. Alice Walker

People Problem Submission Everything Had Intellect Lovers Really Choice

We should not look down on our first ancestors. Alice Walker

First Down Our Ancestors Look Should

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. Alice Walker

Part American Native Native American African-American Euro

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. Alice Walker

Art Writing Painting Everybody Dancers Dancing Lawrence Writers Nobody Makeup Were Any Going Wore Realized Sarah Painters

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. Alice Walker

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful. Alice Walker

Anything Interest Creating Useful

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker

Love Nature People Live Think Too Unnatural Cities Disaster Know Just Moved Happily Them Far Who Basically

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