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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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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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The more I wonder, the more I love.
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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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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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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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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
Alice Walker
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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