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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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