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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

Alice Walker

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

Expression Hate Men War
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
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
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
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
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
ALICE WALKER

Dream Inspirational Love
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
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

Peace Thinking Ubuntu
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
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution

I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

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