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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.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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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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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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