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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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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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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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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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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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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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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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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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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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