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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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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.
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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