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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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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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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.
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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 have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
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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. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
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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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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
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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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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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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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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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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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