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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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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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