Alice Walker

No song or poem will bear my mother’s name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother’s stories.

Alice Walker

Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

Alice Walker

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Alice Walker

There is so much we don’t understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.

Alice Walker

There’s something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.

Alice Walker

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Alice Walker

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Alice Walker

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Alice Walker

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they’ll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Alice Walker

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

Alice Walker