Alice Walker

"Writing has been my salvation and my greatest challenge."

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking."

"Helped are those who are enabled to transcend any injustice or harm that befalls them."

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

"I love myself when I am laughing, and then again when I am looking mean."

"The trouble with praying is that it makes you seem insane to those around you."

"Everything want to be loved."

"You cannot mistreat what you do not feel connected to."

"If you have ever thought that it is important to choose love over fear, you have the capacity for revolution."

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

"Meditation is key to understanding yourself and your place in the world."

"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken seriously."

"War is never an answer to problems; it is a failure of imagination."

"I don't think anybody can tell you how to love somebody else."

"We are not going backwards."

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

"To feel you are something is at the very heart of existence."

"Whatever the degree of forced suppression, there always remains a hard core of truth."

"You can't just take a person and mold them to be what you want them to be."

"Understanding is a very poetic concept."

"We must never assume that which we have seen to be final."

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

"The ability to recognize injustice is the beginning of correction."

"Nature lovers are always fighting. They must be, or what they love gets squashed."

"In any case, near or far, real change requires real sacrifice."

"I am here and it is now."

"Be nobody's darling; be an outcast."

"The experience of loss teaches us most about ourselves."

"Beauty without consciousness is ugly."

"There is something that I call spiritual courage that is required to grow, learn, and eventually shine."