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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

Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
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
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

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

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

Heart Literature Trying
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
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

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

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

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