The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKERThe earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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 WALKERMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKERHard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKERJust because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKERMy heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERI know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.
ALICE WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKERMy God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
ALICE WALKERYou’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t send me anywhere that I wouldn’t be happy to go. You’d be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.
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 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 WALKER