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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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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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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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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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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
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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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