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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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