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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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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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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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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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