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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.


Karen Thompson Walker

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ALICE WALKER It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addis...
ADDISON WALKER Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh pea...
THOMAS WALKER The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than...
ALICE WALKER People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to re...
ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
ALICE WALKER I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be sav...
ALICE WALKER Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and ...
STANLEY WALKER The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose ...
ALICE WALKER How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
ALICE WALKER I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age ...
PAUL WALKER As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and p...
ALICE WALKER I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future t...
ALICE WALKER Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
ALICE WALKER I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, ...
PAUL WALKER I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
KARA WALKER I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-p...
LUCY WALKER I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and g...
PAUL WALKER This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money a...
ALICE WALKER I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the...
SCOTT WALKER Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It ma...
JIMMY WALKER In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of y...
ALICE WALKER Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon famil...
PAUL WALKER Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificen...
PAUL WALKER Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a sec...
MARGARET WALKER Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, ...
ALICE WALKER I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to wat...
DREAMA WALKER The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.
JIMMY WALKER When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
MARGARET WALKER I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
ALICE WALKER