"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names." ― Alice Walker Topic(s): Mom More From Alice Walker "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." "Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for." "As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young." More In Mom "I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time."― Sachin Tendulkar "It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles."― Brooke Shields "Before you’re a mom you don’t know what gear is going to be relevant."― Emily Procter