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.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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.
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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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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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