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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Alice Walker

You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
ALICE WALKER

Enough Planet Real
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
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
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
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
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
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
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
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

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

Expecting Living Surprise

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