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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

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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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Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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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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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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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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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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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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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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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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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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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 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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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
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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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