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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Resistance is the secret of joy!
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
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Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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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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