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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

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself. — 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

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it. — 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

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead. — 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

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. — Alice Walker

Only dead people need loud music, you know. — Alice Walker

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. — 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

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. — 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

This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are. — Alice Walker

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. — Alice Walker

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. — 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

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — 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

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. — 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

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. — Alice Walker

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. — 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

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... — 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

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — 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

There because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred. — 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

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? — Alice Walker

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. — Alice Walker

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. — Alice Walker

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. — Alice Walker

Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars? — 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

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls. — 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

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s. — 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

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. — 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

She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all. — Alice Walker

The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty. — Alice Walker

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. — Alice Walker

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. — Alice Walker

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. — Alice Walker

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. — Alice Walker