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

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

Feel Matter Universe
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

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

Foundation Thinking Wonder
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
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
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

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

Broken Heart Open

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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