I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many. Alice Walker progress revolution It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. Alice Walker clear diversity cherish Activism is my rent for living on the planet. Alice Walker activism living-on planets 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. Alice Walker unity pain people It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. Alice Walker feelings writing people You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need. Alice Walker body dog needs Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense. Alice Walker abortion self men To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America. Alice Walker struggle moving thinking I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist. Alice Walker pessimist humanity I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say. Alice Walker black southern thinking Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker life book art There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. Alice Walker spiritual believe people In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them. Alice Walker opinion fighting race I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully. Alice Walker house men people The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. Alice Walker earth-day given wise For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. Alice Walker bones kind writing It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. Alice Walker criticism writing children I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. Alice Walker race talking past Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation. Alice Walker artist responsibility world Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? Alice Walker dance flower life
