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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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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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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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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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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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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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