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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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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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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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