Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ↗

— Alice Walker

#live #nothing #surprise

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. ↗

— Alice Walker

#children #earlier #i #i believe #much

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. ↗

— Alice Walker

#daily #differently #each #fears #figure

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ↗

— Alice Walker

#how #know #me #mothers #must

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #care #children #humanity #i

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ↗

— Alice Walker

#appear #appearance #avoid #foolish #foolishness

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. ↗

— Alice Walker

#current #history #injustice #level #some

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. ↗

— Alice Walker

#done #even #fail #failing #fear

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. ↗

— Alice Walker

#coming #heart #honor #i #i have learned

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #become #enlightened #leads #self-knowledge