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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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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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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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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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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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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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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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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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