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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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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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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
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