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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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I want something else a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has man right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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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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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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