Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKERWhoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
ALICE WALKERMy parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
ALICE WALKERIt matters to me that I feel loved by the universe – and I do.
ALICE WALKERWherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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 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 WALKERI 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 WALKERActivism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
ALICE WALKERI’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
ALICE WALKERI think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
ALICE WALKERWhenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
ALICE WALKERThank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
ALICE WALKERI write not only what I want to read…I write all the things I should have been able to read.
ALICE WALKERI 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 WALKERI’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.
ALICE WALKERMy heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
ALICE WALKER