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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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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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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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