858 Quotes by Alice Walker

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.