“Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.” Quote by Alice Walker
“I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.” MeanShowsBe GoodEldersDelightedExhibits Author:Alice Walker
“We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.” YouthEldersEmulateMisguidedWallowingTrough Author:Alice Walker
“When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.” PeopleElders Author:Alice Walker
“I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.” ThinkingMayLittlesImportantDifferentWholeStoriesCultureFeltBlackSouthernEldersBlack Culture Author:Alice Walker
“You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.” Heart Author:Alice Walker
“If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.” IfsAncestor Author:Alice Walker
“My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.” WorldSkinsAncestor Author:Alice Walker
“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.” FeelsI CanAncestorCovering Author:Alice Walker
“You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?” KnowsTryingMayLittlesEndsDiesStuffJourneySkyNotionSeedsTinySteelCoffins Author:Alice Walker
“You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.” IfsFeelsEndsFormAcceptingJourneyKeep GoingSomewhere Else Author:Alice Walker