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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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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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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're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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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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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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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 love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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