The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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
You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying]… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this? — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — 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
You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. — 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