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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
— Alice Walker
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
— Alice Walker
What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
— Alice Walker
Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
— Alice Walker
You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.
— Alice Walker
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
— Alice Walker
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
— Alice Walker
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
— Alice Walker
It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.
— Alice Walker
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
— Alice Walker
Only dead people need loud music, you know.
— Alice Walker
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
— Alice Walker
Healing begins where the wound was made.
— Alice Walker
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
— Alice Walker
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
— Alice Walker
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
— Alice Walker
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
— Alice Walker
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
— Alice Walker
It's not possible to stop love.
— Alice Walker
I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
— Alice Walker
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
— Alice Walker
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
— Alice Walker
We'll, you know how nigger is. Can't nobody tell 'em nothing even today. Can't be rule. Every nigger you see got a kingdom in his head.
— Alice Walker
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
— Alice Walker
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
— Alice Walker
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
— Alice Walker
Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each
— Gloria Steinem
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
— Alice Walker
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
— Alice Walker
I start each book when it's ready and never before.
— Alice Walker
She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.
— Alice Walker
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
— Alice Walker
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
— Alice Walker
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
— Alice Walker
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
— Alice Walker
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
— Alice Walker
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
— Alice Walker
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
— Alice Walker
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
— Alice Walker
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
— Alice Walker
Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
— Alice Walker
Without money of one's own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.
— Alice Walker
There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.
— Alice Walker
I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
— Alice Walker
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.
— Alice Walker
Can't you see I'm already half dead.
— Alice Walker
They were assumed, like women and cats, to have no souls.
— Alice Walker
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
— Alice Walker
We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand
— Alice Walker
What you hope for, you also fear.
— Alice Walker
David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.
— Alice Walker
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
— Alice Walker
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
— Alice Walker
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
— Alice Walker
Whoever he is, he is not worth all this.And I will never
unclench my teeth long enough
to tell him so. — Alice Walker
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
— Alice Walker
Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.
— Alice Walker
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
— Alice Walker
I have a collective sense of suffering.
— Alice Walker
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
— Alice Walker
Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.
— Alice Walker
Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.
— Alice Walker
June a good time to go off into the world
— Alice Walker
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
— Alice Walker
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
— Alice Walker
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
— Alice Walker
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
— Alice Walker
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.
— Alice Walker
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
— Alice Walker
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
— Alice Walker
Every stitch i sew will be a kiss.
— Alice Walker
I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.
— Alice Walker
Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
— Alice Walker
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
— Alice Walker