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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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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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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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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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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
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It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
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