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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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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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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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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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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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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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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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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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