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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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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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