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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

Alice Walker

… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

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

Believe One Say
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
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
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
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
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
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
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
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
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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