Alice Walker

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”

“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”

“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”

“I have the feeling that inside you there are thousands of possibilities.”

“The world has changed: it did not change without your prayers, without your faith, without your determination to believe in your own goodness.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”

“Hard times require furious dancing.”

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”