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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.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
Alice Walker
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
Alice Walker
Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
Alice Walker
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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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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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker
