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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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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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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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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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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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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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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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