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.
ALICE WALKERHow sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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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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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 truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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