“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
Best
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”
NatureAll Quotes by Alice Walker
“As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.”
Best“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
Death“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
Future“I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.”
Change“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.”
Respect“All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
History“I'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.'”
Education“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”
Experience“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”
Mom“Clearly 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.”
Family“I 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.”
Religion“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
Experience“Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.”
Government“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”
Change“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”
Happiness“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Friendship“I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.”
Women“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
Money“The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.”
Society