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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

Alice Walker
Country, War, Thinking
"Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 2, 2012.

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Alice Walker
Country, War, Iraq
Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.244, New Press, The

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

Alice Walker
Country, Thinking, America
Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Alice Walker
Country, Ghetto, Thinking
"A long walk to freedom" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

Alice Walker
Country, Mean, House

HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.

Alice Walker
Country, Cities, Web Of Life
Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

Alice Walker
Country, Children, Growing Up

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

Alice Walker
Country, Land, Earth

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

Alice Walker
Country, Children, Intelligent

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

Alice Walker
Country, Space, Used

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