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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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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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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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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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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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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
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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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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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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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