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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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