“She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot… — 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