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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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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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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
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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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
Alice Walker
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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