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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.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
Alice Walker
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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