Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Interpretation
What this quote means
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.
Themes
FictionFreedomImaginationCreativityStorytelling
In practice
Example use cases
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.'
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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.
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I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
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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?
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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.
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