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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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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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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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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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