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

Alice Walker

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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Heart Literature Trying
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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Black Listening Voice
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Day Earth Given Wise
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Believe Heart Hurt
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.
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Children Religious
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Crime Dissent Originals
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Shape Snowflake World
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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Fearless People Think
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Attraction Beauty Creating Law
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.
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Anywhere Heart Lighten
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Many Progress Revolution
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Abortion Defense Self
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Broken Heart Open
Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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Knows Mean Religion
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.
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Care Children Humanity
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Believe One Say
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

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

Flower House Mother
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Attitude Gratitude Life
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Expecting Living Surprise
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
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
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

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

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