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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Discovered
Poetry
Dreams
Honest
Dream
Always
Unexpected
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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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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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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