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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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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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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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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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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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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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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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