How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. -Alice Walker

 

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.


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This quote is just one of 15 total Alice Walker quotes in our collection. Alice Walker is known for saying 'How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

Alice Walker

I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want.

Alice Walker

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker