I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
From Alice Walker
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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.
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
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