I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKERHow sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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