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Alice Walker

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
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
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

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

Door Gratitude Path
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
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution

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