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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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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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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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