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 WALKERHow we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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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 we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
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I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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