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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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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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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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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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