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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.

Alice Walker

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

Flower House Mother
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Forever Thinking
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

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

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
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
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt

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