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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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.
Alice Walker
This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
Alice Walker
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
Alice Walker
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Alice Walker
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
Alice Walker
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
Alice Walker
It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
Alice Walker
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
Alice Walker
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
Alice Walker
Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
Alice Walker
I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
Alice Walker
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Alice Walker
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Alice Walker
Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
Alice Walker
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice Walker
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Alice Walker
