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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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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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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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