More Quotes by Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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.
Healing begins where the wound was made.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
