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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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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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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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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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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 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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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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