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Alice Walker

1944 -
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"Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "
"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"
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "
"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"
"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart"
"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. "
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it"
"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home"
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "
"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "

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