Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
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 WALKERHard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERI have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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 WALKERExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKERI know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKERWhoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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 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 WALKERJust because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER