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The artist...is the voice of the people.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
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Poet
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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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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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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Helped are those who forgive their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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