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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
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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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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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