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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Alice Walker

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
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Impact Time World
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
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
ALICE WALKER

Dream Inspirational Love
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
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
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
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
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
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods

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