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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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