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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

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

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
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
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
… 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
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
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
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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
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

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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