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The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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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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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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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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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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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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