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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

It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
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
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
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
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
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
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
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
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

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

Culture Parent Taught
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals

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