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'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
That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs… — 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
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
