The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by… — 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
I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — 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
