My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERPeople 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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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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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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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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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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.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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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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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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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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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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