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.

Quote by Alice Walker

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress,...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress,...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the...

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the...

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have...

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful

Horses make a landscape look beautiful

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

This could be our revolution to love what is...plentiful as much as whats scarce.

This could be our revolution to love what is...plentiful as much as whats scarce.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they...

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they...

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that...

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.