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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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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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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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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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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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