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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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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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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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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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