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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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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
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. Church just could not hold my spirit.
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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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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
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