Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

Quote by Alice Walker

Topics: Civil Rights Quotes

We sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

We sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they...

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they...

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the...

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the...

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of...

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of...

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

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

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and...

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and...

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and...

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get...

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get...

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it...

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.