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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by

What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

Alice Walker
Running, Thinking, Ideas
Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

Alice Walker
Running, Fighting, Thinking
Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

Alice Walker
Running, Crazy, Walks
Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.20, New World Library

If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.

Alice Walker
Running, Encouragement, Thinking

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