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
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they… — 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
![“My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and…” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c6/alice-walker-347_bigs_my-big-complaint-with-myself-is-that-i-g_1989380.jpg)
