Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
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We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
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You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
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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.
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My 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.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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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