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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
Alice Walker
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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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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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I just really love people a lot. I really love them.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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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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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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Healing cannot be done by settling a score.
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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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