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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

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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
Frugally
Expecting
Surprise
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Anything

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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
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