More Quotes by Alice Walker
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
