858 Quotes by Alice Walker

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    I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

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    To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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    I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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    HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.

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    I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

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