My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERWherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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