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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
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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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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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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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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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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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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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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker
The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
Alice Walker
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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