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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
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To know is to exist to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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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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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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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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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.
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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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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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