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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

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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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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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