You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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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.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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