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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
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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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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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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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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.
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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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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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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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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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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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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult.
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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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