You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. — 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
As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Sighing, Irene said, Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry? Susannah thought for only… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Shug Avery sat up in bed a little today. I wash and comb out her hair. She got the nottiest, shortest, kinkiest… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for simple caring, we have been handed… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the… — 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
“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
“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Oh, she say. God loves all them feelings. That's some of the best stuff God did. And when you know God loves… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Shug: More than anything God love admiration. Celie: You saying God is vain? Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. — 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
“And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's… — 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
