My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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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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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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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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