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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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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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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
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