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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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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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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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker in Living by the Word, 1988
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ""mature"" critics often are.
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In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
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Remember
Remember
When we ended
It all
-for a weekend-
& how
We knew?
You took
The tea bowl
That I
Broke
In
Carelessness
To glue together
Again
At your
House.
poem by Alice Walker
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