Its so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think thats what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. – Alice Walker
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. – 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 am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. – Anne Lamott