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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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