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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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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.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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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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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
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