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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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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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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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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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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.
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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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