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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 believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
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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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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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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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