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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
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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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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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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's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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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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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
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