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

Alice Walker

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
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

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

Expression Hate Men War
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Impact Time World
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
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
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

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

Foundation Thinking Wonder
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
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
ALICE WALKER

Dad Daughter Day Father
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

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