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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

Alice Walker

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

Expression Hate Men War
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
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
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
I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKER

Read Thing Writing
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’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKER

Black Listening Voice
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
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying

I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

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