Quote

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

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
Skin
Skins
Make
World
Ancestors
Ancestor

More quotes by Alice Walker

Image
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
Alice Walker
Image
I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.
Alice Walker
Image
I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
Alice Walker
Image
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Alice Walker
Image
You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
Alice Walker
Image
I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
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
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
Alice Walker
Image
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Alice Walker
Image
Helped are those who are content to be themselves they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
Alice Walker
Image
It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.
Alice Walker
Image
What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
Alice Walker
Image
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
Alice Walker
Image
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
Alice Walker
Image
You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.
Alice Walker
Image
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
Alice Walker
Image
Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
Alice Walker
Image
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
Alice Walker
Image
Eventually I knew what hair wanted it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.
Alice Walker
Image
Like I said...fine with me.
Alice Walker