More Quotes by Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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.
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.
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.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
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.
