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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.

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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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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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'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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