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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.

Alice Walker

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
ALICE WALKER

Care Children Humanity
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
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
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

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

Shape Snowflake World

I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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