My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. — 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… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower… — 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
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Bible say, Honor father and mother no matter what. Then after while every tune I got mad, or start to feels mad.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The good ones who listen to women to children and the poor die too soon, their lives bedeviled by opposition: our hearts… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she… — 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
