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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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When people become elders - when they're older they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.
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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
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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.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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