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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
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Eatonton
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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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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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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