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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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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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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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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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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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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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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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