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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
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Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
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Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
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