Alice Walker Quotes About Elders

Quotes about: Elders

• Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

  Alice Walker

  Patience, Family Life, Teach

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Southern, Black

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Responsibility, Care, Planets

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Be Good, Shows

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Youth, Misguided, Wallowing

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  People, Elders

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