More Quotes by Alice Walker
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Healing begins where the wound was made.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
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.
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.
No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
