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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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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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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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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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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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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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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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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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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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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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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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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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