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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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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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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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