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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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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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Love is big love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
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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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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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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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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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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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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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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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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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