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“When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.”

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'. more

“I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.”

Thinking May Littles Important Different Whole Stories Culture Felt Black Southern Elders Black Culture

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“You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.”

Heart

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“If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.”

Ifs Ancestor

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“My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.”

World Skins Ancestor

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“I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.”

Feels I Can Ancestor Covering

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“You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?”

Knows Trying May Littles Ends Dies Stuff Journey Sky Notion Seeds Tiny Steel Coffins

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“You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.”

Ifs Feels Ends Form Accepting Journey Keep Going Somewhere Else

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“What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.”

Hurt Traits Misunderstood Being Misunderstood

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“Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!”

Facts Luck Critics Paradise

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“It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.”

People Needs Believe Has Beens Planets Standing Boat Unbelievable Rocking The Boat

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