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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

Alice Walker

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 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
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 the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Bliss Creation Periods
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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People Peril Trustworthy
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Gun Men Peace
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
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
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
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

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

Believe Heart Hurt
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

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