Alice Walker: Use

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”

“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.”

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”

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

“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”

“Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.”

“I want a grown-up attitude to Cuba, for instance, a country and people I love. I want an end to the war immediately, and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and drive themselves out of Iraq. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the US to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. But most of all I want someone with the confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend", and this Obama has shown he can do.”