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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
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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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
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I'm the most stubborn person I know.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
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Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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