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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
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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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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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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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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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