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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
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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 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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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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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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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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