American - Author | February 9, 1944 -
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Alice Walker
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
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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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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
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Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.
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