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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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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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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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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In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
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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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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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