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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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