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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
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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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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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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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