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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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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing.
ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER