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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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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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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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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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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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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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