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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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