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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.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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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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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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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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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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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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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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