When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
Alice WalkerYou die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?
Alice Walker'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice WalkerI feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
Alice Walker