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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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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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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.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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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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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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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.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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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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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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