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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

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

Greed Mirror Revolt
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
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

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

Expression Hate Men War
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
ALICE WALKER

Children Religious
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 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
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
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
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
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
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 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.

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