3 December 2020 Alice Walker 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker ‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.