The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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 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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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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