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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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.
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In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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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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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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