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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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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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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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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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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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