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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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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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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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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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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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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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