Alice Walker Quotes

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Healing begins where the wound was made.

If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Anything we love can be saved.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

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.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.