Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. — 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
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
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? — 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
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
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people… — 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
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
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 think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For… — 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
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
My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into… — 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
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
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots… — 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
The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But,… — 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
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem… — 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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