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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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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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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
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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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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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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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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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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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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
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