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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.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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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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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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