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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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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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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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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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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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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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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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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
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Love is big love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
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Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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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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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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