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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life I've come too far to be a pessimist.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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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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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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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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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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