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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

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

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

Greed Mirror Revolt
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
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
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
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
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
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
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
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

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.

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