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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.
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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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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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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
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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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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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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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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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