My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERI know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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.
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Creation is a sustained period of bliss.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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