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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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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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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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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.
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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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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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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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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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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