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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Africa
Anywhere
Diversity
Justice
Else
Live
Mississippi
Never
Happily
Freely

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