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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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The artist...is the voice of the people.
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What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
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