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

Alice Walker

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
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
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
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

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

Foundation Thinking Wonder
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
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
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals

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