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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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