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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 one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

Believe One Say
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
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
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
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
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
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

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

Expression Hate Men War
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals

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