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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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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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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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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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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
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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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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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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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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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