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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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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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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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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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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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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 most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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