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Alice Walker
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

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I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like — when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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