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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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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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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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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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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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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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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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