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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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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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