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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
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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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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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.
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(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
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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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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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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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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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