S.L. Walker Quotes

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.

We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

What America needs is a political revolution.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

Counting time is not as important as making time count.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

Consciously cultivate the ordinary.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.