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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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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 love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!
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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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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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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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