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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life I've come too far to be a pessimist.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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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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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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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.
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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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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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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.
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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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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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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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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.
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