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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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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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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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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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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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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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