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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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