Alice Walker

"We can join hands and work together across every barrier that has been set up between us."

"Beauty is not just physical. It lives in the choices we make."

"To accept the excuses of the wealthy for their inaction is to become complicit."

"Inspiration often comes at unexpected moments."

"The strength of a woman is not in her physical power, but in her will."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

"Wherever you are, be all there."

"In order to see, you have to stop being afraid to look."

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

"Hard to imagine that a handful of religious extremists could change the world, but they did."

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white."

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

"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves."

"Activism is my rent for living on the planet."

"The healing journey often begins with writing."

"I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all the sides of the story are put together."

"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they do the work of God."

"Love is not something to be afraid of."

"The experience of discrimination makes you stronger."

"Nature is always speaking. It is constantly sending messages."

"You cannot profit mentally or spiritually by staying bitter."

"I think we have to own the movies that are made about us."

"Resistance is the secret of joy."

"Write what you know, but also imagine what you don't."

"The goal of the struggle is not to divide but to create a bridge."

"Forgiveness is an act of the strongest people."

"A writer's heart is always breaking."

"You cannot suppress, for long, the reality of who you are."

"I am my mother's daughter, and hers, and hers, and hers."

"Find yourself by losing yourself in service to others."