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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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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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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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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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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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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.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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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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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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