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Being happy is not the only happiness.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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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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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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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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