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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Alice Walker

You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Broken Heart Open
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
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.
ALICE WALKER

Dream Inspirational Love
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER

Believe Heart Hurt
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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Dancing Hard Proof Times
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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Change Grief Real Thing
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Attitude Gratitude Life
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Expecting Living Surprise
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.
ALICE WALKER

Peace Thinking Ubuntu
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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Expression Hate Men War
You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
ALICE WALKER

Enough Planet Real
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.
ALICE WALKER

Dad Daughter Day Father
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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Children Religious
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKER

Feel Matter Universe
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKER

Door Gratitude Path

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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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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