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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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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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