One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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