Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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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.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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