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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
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

Earth Forever Thinking
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
ALICE WALKER

Peace Thinking Ubuntu
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

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

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

Expression Hate Men War
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals

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