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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 grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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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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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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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 don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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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'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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