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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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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'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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 grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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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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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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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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