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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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