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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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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Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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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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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 don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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