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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

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

People Peril Trustworthy
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

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

Expression Hate Men War
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
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
ALICE WALKER

Hair Understanding Wisdom

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