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

Alice Walker

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
ALICE WALKER

Earth Forever Thinking
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
Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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Bliss Creation Periods
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER

Dancing Hard Proof Times
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
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

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

Believe Heart Hurt
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER

Heart Literature Trying
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKER

Day Earth Given Wise
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.
ALICE WALKER

Hatred Mother People
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
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER

Shape Snowflake World
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKER

Abortion Defense Self
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
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER

Foundation Thinking Wonder

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