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Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the novel The Color Purple (1982), for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian (1976) and The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), among other works. An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term "womanist" to mean "A black feminist or feminist of color" in 1983.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Inconvenience, Sin, Violence, Writing

It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Change, Difference, Differences, Justice, Spiritual, Things

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.

Battle, Fear, Fears, Freedom, Lonely, Today

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Day, Firsts, Justice, One Day, Sat, Talked

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Accept, Accepting, Attitude, Enjoy, Ride, Should

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

Africa, Men, Ocean, Thinking, Tortured, Wise

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.

Cakes, Indigenous, Parents, People, School, Struggle

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

Ancestor, Ancestors, Ifs, Killed, Nowhere, Removed

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

Beautifully, House, Men, People

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Gun, Guns, Hands, Men, Peace

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet. . . But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

Church, Confused, Spirit, Universe, Wisdom

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Book, Duty, Extend, Likes, Love

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Fiction, Freedom, Want, Wonderful, World

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

Briefest, Color, Entirely, Men, Think, Thinking

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Bottle, Bottles, Drinking, Hurt, Know, Nobody

Dear God. . . I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

Dear God, Girl, Giving, Good, Sign

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. . . . Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

Folks, God, Know, Thinking, World

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

Africa, Frees, Internal, People, Thinking, Years

Anything we love can be saved.

Love, Saved

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.

Brought, Fears, Peace, People, Thinking, Ubuntu

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