To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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
-
-
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER -
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
ALICE WALKER -
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
ALICE WALKER -
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER -
I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKER -
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER -
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER -
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
ALICE WALKER -
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
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 -
You 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 WALKER -
It 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 WALKER -
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKER -
How 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 WALKER -
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER