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

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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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Peril

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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
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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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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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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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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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