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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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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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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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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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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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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
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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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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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