To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. – Alice Walker
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. – Alice Walker
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. – Alice Walker
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or ones people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker