Alice Walker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

I 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.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.