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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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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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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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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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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
Alice Walker
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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