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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.
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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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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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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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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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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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