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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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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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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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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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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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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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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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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
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