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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

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

Believe Heart Hurt
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
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
ALICE WALKER

Dad Daughter Day Father
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
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
Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER

Knows Mean Religion
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying

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.

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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.

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