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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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