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Quote by Alice Walker

“I just really love people a lot. I really love them.”

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Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'. more

“What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.”

People Thinking Wells I Can Helping Use Culture Highest Typical Mexican Helpfulness Mexican Culture

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“I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.”

People Thinking Knows Want Should Done Culture Voice Meditation Realms Damage Overwhelmed Gadgets Silencing

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

Mind Helping Meditation Areas Stealing

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“Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.”

Soul Self Meditation Corners Thieves Cloaks

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“You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.”

Real Enough Planets Copies

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“I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.”

Thinking Feels Can Do

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