Alice Walker

"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."

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

"Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written."

"It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up."

"The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate."

"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow."

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?"

"Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams."

"I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart."

"The Nature of This Flower is to bloom."

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening . . . Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

"“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”"

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

"Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us."

"Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like."

"Hope to sin only in the service of waking up."

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