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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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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.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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