More Quotes by Alice Walker
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.
Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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.
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.
