Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty… — 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
