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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.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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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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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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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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I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
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