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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
Alice Hoffman
Love
Best
Wait
Will
Sort
Pass
Anyway
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
Alice Hoffman
Difficult
Think
Teen
Kids
Adult
Always
Up
Often
Different
Process
Interested
Growing
Growing Up
Two
Universes
Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
Alice Walker
Up
Get
Anywhere
Us
Sucking
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
Alice Walker
Women
Defiance
Consider
Extremely
Further
Enslavement
About
Something
Really
Act
Used
Choosing
Careful
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice Walker
Time
World
Cancer
Brilliant
Poet
Radical
Thirty
Back
Furious
Once
Morally
Adored
Students
Step
Jordan
Spoke
She
Frequently
Were
Years
Led
Up
Friends
June
Did
Same
Died
Politically
Fierce
Who
Whom
Her
Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.
Alice Walker
Life
You
Walk
Will
Looking
Incredibly
Stay
Minutes
Marvelous
Almost
Almost Anything
Stunned
Yard
How
Five
Anything
Your
Lucky
Even
Awful
Things
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.
Alice Walker
Day
Me
Mother
Made
College
Suitcase
Gave
Typewriter
Machine
Sewing
Week
Maid
Had
Bought
Hours
She
Did
Working
Away
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Alice Walker
War
Terrorism
Country
Think
Absurd
Terror
Coming
Really
Founded
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker
Power
Out
Powerful
Nobody
Make
Them
People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice Walker
Time
You
People
Live
Other
Location
About
Box
Always
How
Label
Fix
Want
Little
Many
Keep
Lives
Need
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.
Alice Walker
Today
Beautiful
Truth
Hope
Truth Is
People
Fear
Long
Once
Tells
Still
Frightening
Stand
Who
Chance
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
Alice Walker
Life
Live
Ideal
Contemplative
Very
Secluded
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
People
Fools
Wish
Willing
Remain
Foolish
Foolishness
Avoid
Appear
Appearance
Actually
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
Alice Walker
Heart
Try
Want
Teach
Things
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Alice Walker
Time
Sense
Think
Bad
Shadow
Look
Forced
America
Being
Really
Large
Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
Alice Walker
Me
Nobody
Real
Race
Convinced
Ever
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
Alice Walker
Other
Must
Seeing
Equal
Makes
Existence
Begin
Us
Creatures
I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.
Alice Walker
Myself
Suffering
People
World
Made
Earth
See
Badly
Feel
Very
Often
Place
Who
Treated
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
Alice Walker
Confused
Disguise
Enemies
Ourselves
Must
Only
Adversaries
Learn
Us
Who
Actually
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Alice Walker
Power
Our
Everything
Everywhere
Must
Feel
Makes
Cease
Behaviour
Afraid
Children
When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
Allen Klein
People
Tough
Some
Point
Through
Lighten
Instinctively
Know
Up
Times
Get
Order
Need
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
Allen Klein
Best
Survival
Humor
Tools
Our
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler
Saying
Business
Somebody
Revolution
Think
Broke
London
Some
Entire
Over
New
Like
Economy
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Because
Textile
Manchester
Manufacturers
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler
Together
Science
Organic
About
Computer
Computers
Major
Come
Like
Genetics
Talking
Semiconductor
Going
Substances
Next
Explosion
Function
Biological
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler
Enough
Correction
Write
Editor
Error
Provoked
Anyone
Doubtless
Letter
Deserves
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler
Future
Man
Change
Limited
Shock
Overwhelmed
Capacity
Biological
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