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Be nobody's darling Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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