The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were… — 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
From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do 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
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty… — 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
