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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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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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