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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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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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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 don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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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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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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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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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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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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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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