"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
― Alice Walker
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― Alice Walker
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- "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
- "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it."
- "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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