My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
-
-
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 WALKER -
America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
ALICE WALKER -
It 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 WALKER -
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKER -
People 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 -
You’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 WALKER -
One 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 WALKER -
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER -
I 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 WALKER -
I 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 WALKER -
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKER -
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER -
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKER -
Just because I don’t harass it like some peoples us know don’t mean I ain’t got religion.
ALICE WALKER -
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER