There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget:… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She say, All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy, I had to fight my brothers. I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“On Stripping Bark from Myself (for Jane, who said trees die from it) Because women are expected to keep silent about their… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share
“Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she… — Alice Walker Copy Share
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. — Alice Walker Copy Share
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share
“As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my… — Alice Walker Copy Share
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending… — Alice Walker Copy Share
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the… — Alice Walker Copy Share
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all… — Alice Walker Copy Share
Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically. — Alice Walker Copy Share
All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my… — Alice Walker Copy Share
