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

Alice Walker

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
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

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

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
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
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
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
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White

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