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.
ALICE WALKERI 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.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKERI 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 WALKERI’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKERIt 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 WALKERHow we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
ALICE WALKERAmerica is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKER