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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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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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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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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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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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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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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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