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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

You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
ALICE WALKER

Anywhere Heart Lighten
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
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
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

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

Shape Snowflake World
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
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
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 heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
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
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
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
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War

I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.

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