My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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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’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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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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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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