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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.
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I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
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