Black Quotes by Alice Walker

Healing begins where the wound was made.

— Alice Walker

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

— Alice Walker

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

— Alice Walker

“First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth,…

— 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

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is…

— Alice Walker

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

— Alice Walker

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful…

— Alice Walker

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through…

— Alice Walker

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a…

— Alice Walker

“She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like,…

— Alice Walker

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a…

— Alice Walker

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see…

— Alice Walker

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a…

— Alice Walker

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every…

— Alice Walker

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is…

— Alice Walker

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and…

— Alice Walker

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

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,…

— Alice Walker

Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For…

— Alice Walker

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt…

— Alice Walker

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most…

— Alice Walker

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people,…

— Alice Walker

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been…

— Alice Walker

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