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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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Alice Malsenior Walker
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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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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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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