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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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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
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In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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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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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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