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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.

Alice Walker

We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Shape Snowflake World
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
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
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Impact Time World
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Door Gratitude Path
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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People Peril Trustworthy
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

Inspiring Mother Simple
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

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

Attitude Gratitude Life
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
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

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

Believe Heart Hurt
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
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
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
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
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 can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

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

Expression Hate Men War
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

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