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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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