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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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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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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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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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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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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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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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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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