Alice Walker

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's…

— Alice Walker

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

— Alice Walker

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with…

— Alice Walker

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to…

— Alice Walker

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

— Alice Walker

“Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.”

— Alice Walker

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

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

— Alice Walker

“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of…

— Alice Walker

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves…

— Alice Walker

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun…

— Alice Walker

“Sighing, Irene said, Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry? Susannah thought for only…

— Alice Walker

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power,…

— Alice Walker

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People…

— Alice Walker

“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty…

— Alice Walker

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

“She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next.”

— Alice Walker

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

— Alice Walker

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

— Alice Walker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

— Alice Walker

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around…

— Alice Walker

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it…

— Alice Walker

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty…

— Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

— Alice Walker

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

— Alice Walker

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

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect,…

— Alice Walker

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

— Alice Walker

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

— Alice Walker

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that…

— Alice Walker

“If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose…

— Alice Walker

“She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never…

— Alice Walker

“Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear Everything. Dear God.”

— Alice Walker

“If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.”

— Alice Walker

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

— Alice Walker

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God.…

— Alice Walker

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to…

— Alice Walker

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

— Alice Walker

Dont wait around for other people to be happy for you any happiness that you get youve got to make yourself

— Alice Walker

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

— Alice Walker