You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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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.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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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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Abortion is an act of self-defense.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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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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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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