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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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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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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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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.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had 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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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
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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'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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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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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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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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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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