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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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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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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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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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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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