Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Alice WalkerDon't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice WalkerAside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
Alice WalkerThe long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
Alice WalkerOur problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
Alice Walker