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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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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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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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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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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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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].
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