I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. — 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… — 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
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
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares… — 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
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around… — 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
It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life.… — 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
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“On Stripping Bark from Myself (for Jane, who said trees die from it) Because women are expected to keep silent about their… — 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
