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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.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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It is natural to want to have a future.
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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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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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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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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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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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