People will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
ALICE WALKERPeople will say to you, “Oh, you are fearless.” That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It’s a slander, really.
ALICE WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERWhenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKERHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
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 WALKEROne 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.
ALICE WALKERTo 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.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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 WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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 WALKER