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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Alice Walker

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

Heart Literature Trying
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
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
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
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

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

Shape Snowflake World
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

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

Flower House Mother
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
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

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

Feel Matter Universe
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
ALICE WALKER

Children Criticism Writing

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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