More Quotes by Alice Walker
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.
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.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
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.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
