I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
Alice WalkerI can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
Alice WalkerI feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
Alice Walker