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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker
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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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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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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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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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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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