Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Alice WalkerRead
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Interpretation
Fiction allows limitless creativity and freedom for expression.
Alice Walker highlights the unique power of fiction as a medium that transcends the limitations of reality, where anything is possible and characters can experience extraordinary feats, such as flying. This freedom in storytelling is what makes fiction a truly wonderful art form, allowing both creators and audiences to explore boundless worlds of imagination.
In practice
In a speech at a writer's conference, one might say, 'As Alice Walker reminds us, 'Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful.'
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
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?
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.
Music is love searching for a word.
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