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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.

Alice Walker

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path
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.
ALICE WALKER

Hatred Mother People
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
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.
ALICE WALKER

Change Grief Real Thing
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKER

Gun Men Peace
Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER

Knows Mean Religion
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.
ALICE WALKER

Color Country Long People
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKER

Many Progress Revolution
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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.
ALICE WALKER

Dream Inspirational Love
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

Inspiring Mother Simple
I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKER

Read Thing Writing
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy

You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.

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