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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Outcast
Pleased
Walk
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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