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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Sing
Dance
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Everything
Trying
Holla
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
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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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Being happy is not the only happiness.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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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.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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