The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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.
More Alice Walker Quotes
-
-
My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKER -
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
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 -
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 -
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 -
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER -
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKER -
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER -
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER -
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
ALICE WALKER -
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKER -
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
ALICE WALKER -
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER -
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER -
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