"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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"Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.“
-Alice Walker
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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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