You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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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.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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.
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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.
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My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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