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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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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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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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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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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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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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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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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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