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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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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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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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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.
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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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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. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
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