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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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
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
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
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
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
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Forever Thinking
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
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
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

Inspiring Mother Simple
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

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

Expression Hate Men War
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

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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