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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

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

Foundation Thinking Wonder
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
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
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
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
ALICE WALKER

Hatred Mother People
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life

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.

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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.

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