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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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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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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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