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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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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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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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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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