It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERJust because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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 WALKERWherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKERHard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKERIt no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
ALICE WALKERWe writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKERCreation is a sustained period of bliss.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERI can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
ALICE WALKERPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERHow sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
ALICE WALKERMy heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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 WALKERI know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKERHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER