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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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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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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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