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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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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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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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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
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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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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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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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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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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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