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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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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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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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