“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The good ones who listen to women to children and the poor die too soon, their lives bedeviled by opposition: our hearts… — 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
The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she… — 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
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 bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness -… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. — 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 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
