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.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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.
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.
Healing begins where the wound was made.
Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
