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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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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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Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Feminist
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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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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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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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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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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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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