My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERI 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.
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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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 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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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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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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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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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