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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

Alice Walker

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

Believe One Say
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

Inspiring Mother Simple
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
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
You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
ALICE WALKER

Enough Planet Real
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
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
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
ALICE WALKER

Color Country Long People

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