It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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