A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
Alice WalkerYou know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.
Alice WalkerWe should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
Alice WalkerWhat I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.
Alice WalkerEvery small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
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