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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
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it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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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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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
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I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?
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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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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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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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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?
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I want something else a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has man right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.
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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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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.
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