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Alice Walker

"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."

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"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me."
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"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
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"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
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"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
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"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
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"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have."
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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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"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
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