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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
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
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Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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