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 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
-
-
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
ALICE WALKER -
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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 -
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER -
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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 -
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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 -
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER -
My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
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 -
It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
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 -
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