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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 come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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I want something else a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has man right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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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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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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