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Alice Walker

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
ALICE WALKER

Children Religious
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
Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER

Knows Mean Religion
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
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
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
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
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
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
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
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
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise

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