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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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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.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
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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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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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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. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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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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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
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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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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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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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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.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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