The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. Alice Walker cleardiversitycherish Activism is my rent for living on the planet. Alice Walker activismliving-onplanets 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 unitypainpeople 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 feelingswritingpeople 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 bodydogneeds 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 abortionselfmen 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 strugglemovingthinking 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 pessimisthumanity 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 blacksouthernthinking 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 lifebookart 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 spiritualbelievepeople In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them. Alice Walker opinionfightingrace 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 housemenpeople The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. Alice Walker earth-daygivenwise 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 boneskindwriting 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 criticismwritingchildren 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 racetalkingpast Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation. Alice Walker artistresponsibilityworld 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 danceflowerlife You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead. Alice Walker crazywalksrunning
