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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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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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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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