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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Faces
Dance
Give
Except
Ever
Flower
Bouquets
Everything
Walk
Notice
Giving
Tree
Forests
Trying
Walks
Trees
Make
Loved
Sing
Life
Attention
Garden

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