Quote

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Alice Walker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
Georgia
Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
Lose
Loses
Future
Fear
Envision
Death
Blade
Power
Blades
Helped
Grass

More quotes by Alice Walker

Image
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker
Image
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
Alice Walker
Image
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker
Image
My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
Alice Walker
Image
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
Alice Walker
Image
You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.
Alice Walker
Image
I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.
Alice Walker
Image
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
Alice Walker
Image
the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
Alice Walker
Image
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
Image
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.
Alice Walker
Image
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
Image
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
Image
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
Alice Walker
Image
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
Alice Walker
Image
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
Alice Walker
Image
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Alice Walker
Image
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
Alice Walker
Image
In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
Alice Walker
Image
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace on them depends the future of the world.
Alice Walker