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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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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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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life I've come too far to be a pessimist.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
Alice Walker
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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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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