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

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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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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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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Love is big love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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