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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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