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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

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
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Film Producer
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Eatonton
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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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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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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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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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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