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I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].
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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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