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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
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The nature of this flower is to bloom.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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