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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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I'm not being disrespectful of the medium it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
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I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious
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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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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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