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Unfortunately we couldn't make a stop or get a score in the last few minutes. We should have won the...
AL WALKER
Nine is absolutely exceptional. What we gave up on the glass, we did a better job of taking care of ...
AL WALKER
If that's not a man going to work. That is absolutely awesome.
AL WALKER
We have earned four very hard road victories in the conference. We're really looking forward to comi...
AL WALKER
Andre played the best [back-to-back] games of anyone in my six years coaching here. He especially pl...
AL WALKER
I think we're really starting to come around. We understand that we can be good if we defend, reboun...
AL WALKER
We went on the road and won four games, which is tremendous. Now we start the next segment of the se...
AL WALKER
They certainly had an offensive performance today. Those guys have the green light to take shots and...
AL WALKER
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved ove...
WALKER PERCY
It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
ADDISON WALKER
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosqui...
MICHELLE WALKER
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
ALICE WALKER
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
HERSCHEL WALKER
He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern ...
WALKER PERCY
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER
What we are seeking is for the federal government to pick up the gap, ... The amount that they offer...
ALLEN WALKER
I'm attached to my sailors. I'm not attached to my ship. (As) long as I bring my sailors back home t...
ALLEN WALKER
If I had my druthers, we would have been finished with this months ago,
ALLEN WALKER
I like living in a smaller town better than I do the city. People in Memphis are spread out doing th...
ALLEN WALKER
We lost everything in the house as far as the house goes. Didn't have no insurance on none of it.
ALLEN WALKER
It finally seems to be the right time. We seem to have an increased interest in nursing in our stude...
ALLEN WALKER
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, G...
ALICE WALKER
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
ALICE WALKER
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl...
ALICE WALKER
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previou...
ALICE WALKER
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp...
ALICE WALKER