Alice Walker Quotes
To Acknowledge Our Ancestors Means We Are Aware That We Did Not Make Ourselves, That The Line Stretches All The Way Back, Perhaps To God; Or To Gods. We Remember Them Because It Is An Easy Thing To Forget: That We Are Not The First To Suffer, Rebel, Fight, Love And Die. The Grace With Which We Embrace Life, In Spite Of The Pain, The Sorrow, Is Always A Measure Of What Has Gone Before.
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