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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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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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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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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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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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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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