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

Alice Walker

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

Feel Matter Universe
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
You can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
ALICE WALKER

Anywhere Heart Lighten
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER

Expression Hate Men War
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKER

Thank Thanksgiving You
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.
ALICE WALKER

Color Country Long People
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.
ALICE WALKER

Children Criticism Writing
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKER

Know Nothing Thinking
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKER

Bliss Creation Periods
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
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
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
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

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