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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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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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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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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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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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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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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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