Alice Walker Quotes

Healing begins where the wound was made.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartedness.

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

Anything we love can be saved.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

When the axe came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.