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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
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The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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Find yourself a cup of tea the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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