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

Alice Walker

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

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
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
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
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
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
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
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
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
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
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

Inspiring Mother Simple

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

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