Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. ✨ Alice Walker (2012). Anythi…

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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. ✨ Alice Walker (2012). Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism, p.137, Ballantine Books
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Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. ✨ Alice Walker (2012). Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism, p.137, Ballantine Books

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