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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

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
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
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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 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
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

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

Believe One Say
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
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
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

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

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