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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
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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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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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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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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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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