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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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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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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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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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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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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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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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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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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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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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