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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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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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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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