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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

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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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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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
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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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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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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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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
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