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If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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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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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 fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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Like I said...fine with me.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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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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We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
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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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I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
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My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep. That's about it.
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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
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I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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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.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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