"The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness."

-- Alice Walker

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“Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.”
“I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.”
“One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes its own. I feel that way when I read - and that applies to the experience of reading my work in public, too. The essays are a barrier between me and the audience, and it feels like a disappearing act. Poof! I'm gone, and the woman I've created on the page emerges.”

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“I think that especially in the U.S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and stuff are entertainment networks.”
“When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.”
“Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.”
“Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.”
“And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.”

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