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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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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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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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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
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I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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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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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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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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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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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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