More Quotes by Alice Walker
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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.
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.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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.
Healing begins where the wound was made.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
