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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.
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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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