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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.

Alice Walker

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKER

Culture Parent Taught
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
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
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
ALICE WALKER

Hair Understanding Wisdom
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
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
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
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Forever Thinking
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law

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.

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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.

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