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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.
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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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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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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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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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