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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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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 don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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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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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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