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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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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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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
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