It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERWhoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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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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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
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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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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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