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 WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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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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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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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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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.
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Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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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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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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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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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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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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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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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
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