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 WALKERIt 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 WALKERYou’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.
ALICE WALKERMy heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKERHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERI try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKERMany people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
ALICE WALKERExpecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
ALICE WALKERThe original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERAbortion is an act of self-defense.
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.
ALICE WALKEROne 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 WALKERMy 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.
ALICE WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKER