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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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 know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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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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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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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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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.
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