What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans. Alice Walker More Quotes by Alice Walker More Quotes From Alice Walker HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world. Alice Walker depends prayer world HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. Alice Walker astonishment delight magic Abortion is an act of self-defense. Alice Walker abortion defense self My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being. Alice Walker mother writing thinking Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. Alice Walker wise witty teacher I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch. Alice Walker muse writing thinking I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are. Alice Walker taken men thinking The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men Alice Walker men boys world I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. Alice Walker knows want But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind. Alice Walker struggle justice animal My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. Alice Walker taught parent culture If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. Alice Walker ifs I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts. Alice Walker daughter teaching mother Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. Alice Walker generations reading writing God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us. Alice Walker people years thinking I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. Alice Walker shadow america thinking Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are. Alice Walker trust matter people Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written. Alice Walker grandma mother moving We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them. Alice Walker wallowing misguided youth A grown child is a dangerous thing. Alice Walker grown-children dangerous children
