Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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
“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“And then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. ___ done ast me to marry him… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Dont wait around for other people to be happy for you any happiness that you get youve got to make yourself — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming… — 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
