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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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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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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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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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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
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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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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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