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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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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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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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Healing begins where the wound was made.
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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.
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I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
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Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men
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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.
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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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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.
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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
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