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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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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'm the most stubborn person I know.
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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.
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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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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.
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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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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.
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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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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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