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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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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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