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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
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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 trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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