My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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 WALKERWell, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
ALICE WALKERWe writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKERHow we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
ALICE WALKERWhoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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 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 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 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 WALKERHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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 WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKERWherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKERMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKER