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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
Actor
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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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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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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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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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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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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Like I said...fine with me.
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Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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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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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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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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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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