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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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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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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
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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
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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
Alice Walker
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
Alice Walker
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
Alice Walker
You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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