Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. — 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
I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the… — 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
As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and… — 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
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
Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle,… — 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
If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head.… — 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'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones… — 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
If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? — 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 don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it. — 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
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