I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
Alice WalkerI feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
Alice WalkerI am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.
Alice WalkerMan corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.
Alice Walker