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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Alice Walker

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
ALICE WALKER

Dad Daughter Day Father
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
ALICE WALKER

Hatred Mother People
People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
ALICE WALKER

Fearless People Think
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKER

Read Thing Writing
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
ALICE WALKER

Children Religious
I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
ALICE WALKER

Faith Humanity Pessimist
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
ALICE WALKER

Color Country Long People
Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER

Knows Mean Religion

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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