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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.
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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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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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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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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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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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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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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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