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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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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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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
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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 hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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