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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
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
Suicide
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World
Celebrating
Poems
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Evening

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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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.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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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 is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
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