The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKERThe earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
ALICE WALKERI can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there’s a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
ALICE WALKERI try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKERRevolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKERProgress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
ALICE WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKERMen make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
ALICE WALKERTo 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 WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERHard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKERWe writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
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 WALKERPoetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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 WALKER