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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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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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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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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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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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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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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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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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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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