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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
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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.
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
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