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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.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
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Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
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One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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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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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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