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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
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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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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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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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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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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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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