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Love is big love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

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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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
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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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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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