I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKERMy heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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 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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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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