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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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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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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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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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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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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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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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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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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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