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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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What you hope for, you also fear.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
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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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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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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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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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