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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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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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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.
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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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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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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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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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