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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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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.
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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
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Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.
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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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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
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I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
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