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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Alice Walker

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
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
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
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
ALICE WALKER

Dad Daughter Day Father
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
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
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
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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