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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
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Film Producer
Novelist
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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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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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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