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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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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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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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