The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any

Quote by Alice Walker

Topics: Power Quotes

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the...

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the...

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down...

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down...

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become...

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become...

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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...

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...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be...

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be...

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it