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I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
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When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.
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As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
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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 have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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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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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
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