The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here. Alice Walker meditation soul self I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious Alice Walker bisexual curious My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. Alice Walker want Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult. Alice Walker yoga reading book As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. Alice Walker done fear school Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock. Alice Walker flower men thinking I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature. Alice Walker appreciate color thinking Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond. Alice Walker duty likes book I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too. Alice Walker taken night father The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Alice Walker mother native-american children 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 be-good shows mean I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk. Alice Walker mad waste people I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi. Alice Walker live-free diversity justice I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe. Alice Walker i-believe believe Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. Alice Walker finding-yourself cups tea Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. Alice Walker confused greed humanity I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. Alice Walker one-thing known felt We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you. Alice Walker caring gold fall I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. Alice Walker terrorist afghanistan united-states I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. Alice Walker used space country
