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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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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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You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.
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Love is big love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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