It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
Alice WalkerI think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Alice WalkerI don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
Alice WalkerMy activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
Alice Walker