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

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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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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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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Anything we love can be saved.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
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