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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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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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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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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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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.
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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.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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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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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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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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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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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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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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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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