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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.
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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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I want something else a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has man right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.
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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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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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