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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 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
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
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
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
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
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
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

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

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
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
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times

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

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