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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

Alice Walker

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

Alive Peace Ubuntu
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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Gun Men Peace
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
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
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
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
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
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
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
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
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 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
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
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
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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