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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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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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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
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Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
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Anything we love can be saved.
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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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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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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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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
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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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In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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