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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

Alice Walker

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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
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Ecstasy
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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