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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
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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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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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