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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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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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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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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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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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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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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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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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