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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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 are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.
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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.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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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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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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