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What you hope for, you also fear.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
Alice Walker
I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
Alice Walker
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Alice Walker
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker
Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
Alice Walker
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
Alice Walker
allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
Alice Walker
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Alice Walker
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.
Alice Walker
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
Alice Walker
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
Alice Walker
People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
Alice Walker
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker
Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
Alice Walker
That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
Alice Walker
