Quote by Alice Walker (b. 1944)

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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