“… People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar. — 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
Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — 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
