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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
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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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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I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.
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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
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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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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
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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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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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