You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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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 try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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