The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion. — 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
