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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
Wanting
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Dance
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Everything
Trying
Holla
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Wanna

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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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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
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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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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life I've come too far to be a pessimist.
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Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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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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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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