I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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GENE CERNAN In the past these communities were impossible to work with. Their focus has been opposed to U.S. int... JOE SANDERS He only has one way of dealing with us, and that's being straightforward all the time. I think that'... DANTE CUNNINGHAM People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power stee... CHARLIE KIMBALL The people you stay around with can either make or mar you TOPSY GIFT President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in th... GLENN HUBBARD Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and withou... WILLIAM GODWIN As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated speciali... MARK TWAIN No one on this board or anyone connected with them, or their families, has any financial interest in... LAURA WEISS Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that ... RANSOM RIGGS To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to... JAMES E. ROGERS Imagine a child sitting down with that large book. You can sort of absorb yourself into the book. LESLIE FIELDS Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. JAMES EARL JONES He's an amazing horse. No horse I've ever seen in any race stumbled like that. And I don't know any ... JEREMY ROSE Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that'... GRAHAM BOYD I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director. CHARLES DURNING My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several livin... BLAIZE CLEMENT Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand i... BILLY GRAHAM You're the best gay friend I've ever had! 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I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. ALICE WALKER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th... ALICE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ALICE WALKER Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you... ALICE WALKER I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some... ALICE WALKER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,... ALICE WALKER The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro... ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch... ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t... ALICE WALKER Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ... ALICE WALKER It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, G... ALICE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ALICE WALKER The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl... ALICE WALKER The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previou... ALICE WALKER How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ALICE WALKER And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp... ALICE WALKER Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conceptio... ALICE WALKER Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to ... ALICE WALKER The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. ALICE WALKER Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. ALICE WALKER It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have ... ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produc... ALICE WALKER Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. ALICE WALKER In search of my mother's garden I found my own. ALICE WALKER All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never de... ALICE WALKER It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black wo... ALICE WALKER The animals of the world exist
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than... ALICE WALKER People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to re... ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout ALICE WALKER I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be sav... ALICE WALKER The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose ... ALICE WALKER How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. ALICE WALKER As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and p... ALICE WALKER I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future t... ALICE WALKER Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. ALICE WALKER This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money a... 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ALICE WALKER I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a... ALICE WALKER Horses make a landscape look beautiful. ALICE WALKER Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ALICE WALKER I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of... ALICE WALKER I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice ... ALICE WALKER Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. ALICE WALKER I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you unders... ALICE WALKER No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ALICE WALKER Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasm... ALICE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ALICE WALKER If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emo... ALICE WALKER A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in h... ALICE WALKER We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. ALICE WALKER It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older ... ALICE WALKER I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ... ALICE WALKER I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good... ALICE WALKER So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. ALICE WALKER I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically act... ALICE WALKER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,... ALICE WALKER War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going of... ALICE WALKER Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and ... ALICE WALKER Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ALICE WALKER I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ALICE WALKER Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening.... ALICE WALKER 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expres... ALICE WALKER And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp... ALICE WALKER Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. ALICE WALKER I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Ru... ALICE WALKER What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. ALICE WALKER I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and ... ALICE WALKER I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United Stat... ALICE WALKER Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. ALICE WALKER There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sus... ALICE WALKER Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance th... ALICE WALKER It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tender... ALICE WALKER Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, ... ALICE WALKER America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... ... ALICE WALKER Horses make a landscape look beautiful ALICE WALKER I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be th... ALICE WALKER Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ALICE WALKER I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. ALICE WALKER Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. ALICE WALKER I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all ... ALICE WALKER Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been sy... ALICE WALKER Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person ... ALICE WALKER I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collectiv... ALICE WALKER The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' ALICE WALKER I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her... ALICE WALKER I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I wa... ALICE WALKER On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my... ALICE WALKER I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here... ALICE WALKER ...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s... ALICE WALKER I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find th... ALICE WALKER I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but ... 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ALICE WALKER Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who succes... ALICE WALKER What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears ALICE WALKER Activism is my rent for living on this planet. ALICE WALKER The original ''crime'' of ''niggers'' and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. ALICE WALKER People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, b... ALICE WALKER The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff. ALICE WALKER And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp... ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some d... ALICE WALKER Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. ALICE WALKER Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. ALICE WALKER Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. ALICE WALKER All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world ALICE WALKER It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come... ALICE WALKER For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that t... ALICE WALKER Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always ha... ALICE WALKER If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. ALICE WALKER I've learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. ALICE WALKER Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t... ALICE WALKER In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ALICE WALKER At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back t... 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