I’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’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKERYou can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKERWe writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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 WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKERHard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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 WALKERMy heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER… my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERJust because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
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 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’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER