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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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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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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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What you hope for, you also fear.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
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