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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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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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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
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