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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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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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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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In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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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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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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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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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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