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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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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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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.
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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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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
Alice Walker
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
Alice Walker
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Alice Walker
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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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.
Alice Walker
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
Alice Walker
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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