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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

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

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
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
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

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

Believe Heart Hurt
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
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
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
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
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 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
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
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
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
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
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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
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

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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