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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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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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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
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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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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'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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