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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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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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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
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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.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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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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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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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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