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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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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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