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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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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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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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