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“ A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something. ”

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Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

~ Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.

~ Alice Walker

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

~ Alice Walker

Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.

~ Alice Walker