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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
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before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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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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