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
Fiction is such a world of freedom, its wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. – Alice Walker
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, theres a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how theyre not the same, ever again. – Alice Walker
Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. – Alice Walker