#om

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. ↗

— Alice Walker

#current #history #injustice #level #some

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

— Alice Walker

#coming #heart #honor #i #i have learned

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#blog #crippled #generations #i #i do

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#comes #correctly #culture #describe #does

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are. ↗

— Alice Walker

#become #case #children #critics #healthier

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. ↗

— Alice Walker

#being #care #feel #feeling #get

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bloom #cherish #cherished #clear #every

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#does #eventually #everyone #life #only

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father