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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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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life I've come too far to be a pessimist.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
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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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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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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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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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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'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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