Alice Walker

"We write to taste life twice."

"The fact of being alive is itself an extraordinary privilege."

"Loneliness is solitude without the sweetness of company."

"You can never mistreat what you understand to be part of yourself."

"Evil is a transgression of that which is natural to us."

"Let us aspire to be human beings, only that."

"The danger of not being heard is that you will come to doubt your own utterances."

"In our struggle, we will always need to depend on each other."

"Nothing is ever really peaceful once you have seen the bloodstains on the wall."

"The gift of loneliness is a path to understanding ourselves."

"What gardening teaches us is that if you do the work, the beauty will come."

"My mother made me believe in myself and in love."

"We are made to love, and fear is what prevents us."

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns."

"I really believe in the power of faith and hope."

"To grow into your beauty you must remember where you have come from."

"Understanding is the beginning of desiring."

"The truth is that many of our wounds come from those we love."

"We are not here to be perfect, but to be whole."

"In the end, you are judged not by how much you have accomplished, but by how much you have loved."

"The most important thing is to stay connected to those you love and to love well."

"If you want to prosper, try not to demand too much of others."

"I am determined to love all of who I am."

"People will forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel."

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past are destined to fail."

"The most important thing is for us to recognize our own divinity and celebrate our existence."

"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall find themselves relieved of despair."

"In order to see, we have to stop being afraid of what we might see."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Anything we love can be saved against any odds."