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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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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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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
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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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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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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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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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