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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
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