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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Alice Walker

You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
ALICE WALKER

Enough Planet Real
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
ALICE WALKER

Children Criticism Writing
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

Inspiring Mother Simple
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
ALICE WALKER

Peace Thinking Ubuntu
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
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
ALICE WALKER

Care Children Humanity
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother

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