Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker black-historyearthart Healing begins where the wound was made. Alice Walker blackhealingmade As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. Alice Walker giving-upflowerspring Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. Alice Walker gratitudepathdoors Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker gratitudeattitudelife Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance. Alice Walker crueltybalancecompassion You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area. Alice Walker meditationmindhelping I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet. Alice Walker earthmotherthinking The artist...is the voice of the people. Alice Walker voiceinspirationalart The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job. Alice Walker selfeviljobs If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. Alice Walker mindlongpeople It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible. Alice Walker oceanwisemen Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. Alice Walker successbeing-happyhappiness My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television. Alice Walker eviltelevisionneeds we are the ones we have been waiting for Alice Walker confidencelife-changingchange A burnt finger remember the fire. Alice Walker fingersfireremember the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat. Alice Walker determinationprayerkindness I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose. Alice Walker successfulexpressionorder Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. Alice Walker moving Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. Alice Walker selfjoydiscovery
