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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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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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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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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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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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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 think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
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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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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
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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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