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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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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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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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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. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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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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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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