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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.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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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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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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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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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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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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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
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