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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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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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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'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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 hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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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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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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