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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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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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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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 know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
Alice Walker
