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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.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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