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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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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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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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