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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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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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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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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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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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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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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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