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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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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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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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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
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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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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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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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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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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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