Alice Walker

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception. "

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

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

"In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose. "

"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

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

"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. "

"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying' "

"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. "

"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk "