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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

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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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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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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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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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