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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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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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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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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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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
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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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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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