Quotes about Resilience
It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change
— Alice Hoffman
Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous, even if the person in question is a girl who has recently turned twelve.
— Alice Hoffman
Never be without thread," she told the girl. "What is broken can also be mended. Remember that in your dark days, as I have.
— Alice Hoffman
I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
— Alice Walker
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
— Alice Walker
And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238
— Alice Walker
Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.
— Alice Walker
My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
— Alice Walker
This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are.
— Alice Walker
A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.
— Alice Walker
She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.
— Alice Walker
You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.
— Alice Walker