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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
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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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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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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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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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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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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
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.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
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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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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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