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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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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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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.
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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
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