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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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
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Film Producer
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Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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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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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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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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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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