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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

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

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

Many Progress Revolution
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
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
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
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

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

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

Gun Men Peace
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
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
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder

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.

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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.

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