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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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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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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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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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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
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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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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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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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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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