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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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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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