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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

Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
ALICE WALKER

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

Alive Peace Ubuntu
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
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
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
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

Crime Dissent Originals
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
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

Inspiring Mother Simple
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER

Attraction Beauty Creating Law

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