Alice Walker

"We are the ones we have been waiting for."

"I think that passionate women are interesting women."

"Be Nobody's Darling; Be an Outcast."

"Resist. Persist. Create."

"The oppressed and the oppressor are locked in an infamous embrace."

"I am keeping my spirit free of hate."

"The world is not just the physical world one can see, but all the emotional undercurrents."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver they make."

"There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look."

"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall find joy."

"Life is better when you're laughing."

"The ability to understand what it means to be alive is the greatest achievement."

"Time moves slowly and persistently for the poor, the working, the suffering."

"I think we have to own the fear we have of each other."

"In order to successfully live our lives, we must truly come to terms with who we are."

"I am not someone who believes that one should make the journey alone."

"The danger is not change itself, but moving without a vision."

"Thankfulness is a currency that we can use to buy a better world."

"We cannot afford to be reasonable anymore."

"I came to see these women, to understand them, to love them."

"The truth is, love will always save us, in the end."

"Life is not a performance."

"The hardest thing for me to learn was that I was not responsible for everything."

"The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg."

"I am pleased that I came into my power so late."

"Part of us is eternal, part of us is born and dies."

"To cherish what remains of the earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope."

"Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and respect for strength."

"I write about ordinary people in the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in."

"We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away."