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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

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

Expression Hate Men War
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
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
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
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
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
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
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
ALICE WALKER

Care Children Humanity
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
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 matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life

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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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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