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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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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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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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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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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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