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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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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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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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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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