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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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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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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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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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 feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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