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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
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