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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.
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HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
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Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
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