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What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.
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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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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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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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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
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