You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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 know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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