"The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
More Alice Walker quotes
"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...
"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
"This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
"Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
"I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.