"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Philosophy as articulated by Alice Walker. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Philosophy provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.

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"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."

— Alice Walker
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"The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?"

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"It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try."

— Alice Walker
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"All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."

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"I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?"

— Derek Jacobi
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"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

— Stringfellow Barr
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"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."

— Richard Pryor
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"I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women."

— Louis C. K.
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