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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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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. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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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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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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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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