You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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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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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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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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