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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

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

Door Gratitude Path
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
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
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

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

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
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
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

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