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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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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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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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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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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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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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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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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
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