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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

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
ALICE WALKER

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

Dancing Hard Proof Times
… 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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
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
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
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
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
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
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe

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.

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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.

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