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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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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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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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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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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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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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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 don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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