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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Alice Walker

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
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
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
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 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
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

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

Feel Matter Universe

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

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