"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
-Alice Walker
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"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.“
-Alice Walker
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
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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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"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
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"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
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