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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

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

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

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
ALICE WALKER

Care Children Humanity
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
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
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 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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