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

Alice Walker

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
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

Brilliant Consciousness Revolution
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER

Alive Peace Ubuntu
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
People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
ALICE WALKER

Fearless People Think
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Expecting Living Surprise
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER

Broken Heart Open
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
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER

People Peril Trustworthy
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER

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

Greed Mirror Revolt
… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKER

Flower House Mother
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Attitude Gratitude Life
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

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