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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

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
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
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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
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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

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

Greed Mirror Revolt
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
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War

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