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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
Alice Walker
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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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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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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.
Alice Walker
Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.
Alice Walker
If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
Alice Walker
