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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.
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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.
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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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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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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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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.
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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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