I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
Alice WalkerWar contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
Alice WalkerShe thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
Alice WalkerOne white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
Alice Walker