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

Alice Walker

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

Greed Mirror Revolt
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
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

Anywhere Heart Lighten
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
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
I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKER

Black Listening Voice
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

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

People Peril Trustworthy
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say

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