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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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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 find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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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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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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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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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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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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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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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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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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