You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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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.
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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.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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