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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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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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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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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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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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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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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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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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