More Quotes by Alice Walker
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
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.
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 person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
