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Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with 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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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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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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Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
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Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my maiden name, Walker.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
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As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.
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