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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

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

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
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
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
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
ALICE WALKER

Dream Inspirational Love
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
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
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
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution

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.

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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.

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