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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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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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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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