S.L. Walker Quotes

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.

I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Like I said...fine with me.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think Ive been lucky to do that.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

I think you always have regrets.

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

Just got back from a 5 day camping trip. No phones, no Internet, no problem. It was great. Now time for a hot shower. I absolutely reek!

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.

When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher.

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

I don’t go where people are. I go where the people aren’t.

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.