Alice Walker

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. ”

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get. ”

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. ”

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. ”

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. ”

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. ”

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me. ”