01c. 1944 ADI understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.Alice Walker / quote ↗
02c. 1944 ADHoward 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1944 ADClearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.Alice Walker / quote ↗
04c. 1944 ADIn 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1944 ADDon't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.Alice Walker / quote ↗
06c. 1944 ADIf we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.Alice Walker / quote ↗
07c. 1944 ADI don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.Alice Walker / quote ↗
08c. 1944 ADI'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'Alice Walker / quote ↗
09c. 1944 AD'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.Alice Walker / quote ↗
10c. 1944 ADLife is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.Alice Walker / quote ↗
11c. 1944 ADAll History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.Alice Walker / quote ↗
13c. 1944 ADThis is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.Alice Walker / quote ↗
15c. 1944 ADAs long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.Alice Walker / quote ↗
16c. 1944 ADMost damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.Alice Walker / quote ↗
17c. 1944 ADOne of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.Alice Walker / quote ↗
18c. 1944 ADThe infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.Alice Walker / quote ↗
20c. 1944 ADI have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.Alice Walker / quote ↗
21c. 1944 ADI made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.Alice Walker / quote ↗
22c. 1944 ADCreation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.Alice Walker / quote ↗
23c. 1944 ADYes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.Alice Walker / quote ↗
24c. 1944 ADHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.Alice Walker / quote ↗
