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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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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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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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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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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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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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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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