We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and… — 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
