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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

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
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
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
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
ALICE WALKER

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

Broken Heart Open
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

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

Flower House Mother
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
ALICE WALKER

Faith Humanity Pessimist
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

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.

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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.

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