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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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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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I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
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