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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Alice Walker

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

Believe One Say
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 mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
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
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
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
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World

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