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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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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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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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we are the ones we have been waiting for
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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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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