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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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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.
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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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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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
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