All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She say, All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy, I had to fight my brothers. I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are… — 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
