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The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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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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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
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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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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
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