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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
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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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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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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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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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