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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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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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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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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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