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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

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

Heart Literature Trying
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
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
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Forever Thinking
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
ALICE WALKER

Dream Inspirational Love
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
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Impact Time World
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
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 original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

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

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

Expression Hate Men War

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

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