Alice Walker

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. ”

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. ”

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. ”

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. ”

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ”

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. ”

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. ”

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. ”

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. ”

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. ”