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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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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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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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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.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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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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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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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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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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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 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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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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