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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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  Inspiring, Graduation, Children

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.51, New Press, The

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• I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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  Writing, Thinking, Long

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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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  Light, Self, Darkness

  Alice Walker (2010). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.196, The New Press

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• Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

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  People, Earth, Saved

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.241, New Press, The

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• Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

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  Heart, People, Imagination

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• Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

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  Discovery, Self, Joy

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

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  Meditation, Mind, Helping

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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• I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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  Falling In Love, Imagination, Free Spirit

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.298, The New Press

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• I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

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  Successful, Expression, Order

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• Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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  Gratitude, Doors, Path

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• The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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  Flower, Summer Flower

  "The Girl God". Book by Alice Walker, 2012.

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• Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.

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  Love You, Love Is, Hair

  "Alice in Walkerland: The “PBS American Masters”". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 10, 2014.

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• A burnt finger remember the fire.

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  Fire, Remember, Fingers

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

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  Outcast, Walks

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.137, Ballantine Books

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• The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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  Peace, Children, Passion

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• Being happy is not the only happiness.

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  Alice Walker (1991). “Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete”, Harcourt

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• Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

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  Love Is, Hatred, Want

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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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  Dream, Fighting, Feelings

  "Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 02, 2012.

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• As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
  As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

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  Giving Up, Spring, Flower

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.194, The New Press

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• Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

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  Long, Personality, Waiting

  "Living by the Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987". Book by Alice Walker, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1988.

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• In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

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  Grief, Thinking, Voice

  "Alice Walker: 'I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity'". Interview With Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

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  Thinking, Knows

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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• Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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  Writing, People, Understanding

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.195, Hachette UK

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