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

Alice Walker

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER

Greed Mirror Revolt
I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKER

Black Listening Voice
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.
ALICE WALKER

Children Religious
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 WALKER

Change Grief Real Thing
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
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.
ALICE WALKER

Faith Humanity Pessimist
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
I write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKER

Read Thing Writing
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.
ALICE WALKER

Hair Understanding Wisdom
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKER

Change Collaboration White
Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER

Knows Mean Religion
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKER

Culture Parent Taught

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