You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERI try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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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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I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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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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