Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will… — 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
