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

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

Gun Men Peace
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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
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
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
ALICE WALKER

Change Grief Real Thing
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
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
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open

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

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