Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
Alice WalkerDon't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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 WalkerIt's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
Alice WalkerI am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
Alice Walker