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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
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HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.
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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
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Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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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.
Alice Walker
I want something else a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has man right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.
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