What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. Alice Walker foundation wonder thinking When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it. Alice Walker curious wells ends In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. Alice Walker baby believe thinking How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds. Alice Walker nature god mind One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. Alice Walker understanding wisdom hair Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do. Alice Walker hatred want love-is I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations. Alice Walker light heart mean This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce. Alice Walker plentiful scarce revolution People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. Alice Walker progress people thinking Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known. Alice Walker eye forever people I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. Alice Walker glad knowledge thinking Only dead people need loud music, you know. Alice Walker music people needs Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically. Alice Walker expendables billions humans If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors. Alice Walker ancestor ifs The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. Alice Walker lonely loneliness taken I just really love people a lot. I really love them. Alice Walker people One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything. Alice Walker white-man air men I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here. Alice Walker black voice listening Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat. Alice Walker trouble kids facts I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment. Alice Walker embodiment feel-good thinking
