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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.
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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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