If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
From Alice Walker
People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
It is important to remember yourself.
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.
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