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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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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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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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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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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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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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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
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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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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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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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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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