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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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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.
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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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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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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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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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Love is big love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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