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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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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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HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
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I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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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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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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