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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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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
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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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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
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