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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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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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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
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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?
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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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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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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