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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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