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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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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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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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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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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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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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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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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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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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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
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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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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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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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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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