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.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
Healing begins where the wound was made.
