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Resistance is the secret of joy!
Alice Walker
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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
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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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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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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