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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Alice Walker

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

Flower House Mother
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

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

Broken Heart Open
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
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
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
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
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
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
ALICE WALKER

Faith Humanity Pessimist
America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
ALICE WALKER

Color Country Long People
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

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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