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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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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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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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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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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
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