Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKERI try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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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