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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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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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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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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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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
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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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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
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